Jonathan Soros previously served as chief executive officer of JS Capital Management LLC and as co-deputy chairman of Soros Fund Management.
19 Facts About Jonathan Soros
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Jonathan Soros has been a prominent donor to Democratic and progressive political causes.
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Jonathan Soros's parents are Annaliese Witschak and business magnate George Jonathan Soros, who divorced in 1981.
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Jonathan Soros is the brother of Andrea and Robert Soros and half-brother of Gregory and Alexander, from his father's second marriage to Susan Weber.
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Jonathan Soros received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1992.
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Jonathan Soros then received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
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Jonathan Soros worked for a federal judge as a law clerk before joining Jonathan Soros Fund Management.
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Jonathan Soros worked at Jonathan Soros Fund Management beginning in 2002 and in 2004, he and his brother, Robert, became co-deputy chairmen of the organization that managed $12.8 billion in funds at that time.
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Jonathan Soros focused on operations and was the organization's chief investment officer until he stepped down in 2011.
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Jonathan Soros's father said that Jonathan was "the principal architect of our transition to a healthy and stable investment operation" out of a turbulent financial period.
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Jonathan Soros was the founder and chief executive officer of JS Capital Management LLC, a private investment firm, located in midtown Manhattan near Central Park.
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In July 2012, Jonathan Soros started and funded Friends of Democracy PAC, a hybrid political action committee and super PAC designed to push for campaign finance reform that would mandate a public financing system for all federal elections.
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Jonathan Soros's organization was described as an "anti-super PAC super PAC" by The Washington Post.
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Jonathan Soros won by a small margin, in a district that historically elected Republicans.
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Jonathan Soros is a member of Democracy Alliance, an organization that funds Democratic campaigns.
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Jonathan Soros backed two state legislative initiatives in 2016 to reform campaign financing, one in the state of Washington and the other in South Dakota.
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Jonathan Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a member of the board of directors of the New America Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.
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Jonathan Soros contributed to Hillary Clinton and Martin O'Malley's presidential campaigns in 2015.
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Jonathan Soros married Jennifer Allan in 1997, who was a social worker when they met.